A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 135

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612

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George Willis Holman

was born August 1, 1851. His father was John Holman. a native of England. His mother's maiden name was Laura Curtis a native of New York. Our sub- ject was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, went through the schools of Portsmouth and was graduated from the High School in 1870. At the age of twenty he started in as a clerk in Peter Brodbeck's dry goods store and remained there two years. In 1873, he went to Keystone furnace in Jackson county, and clerked in a store. He remained there two years. After this he was one year in the milling business in Portsmouth, Ohio with Dr. C. C. Fulton. In 1876 he went to Quinnimont, West Virginia, and was clerk in a furnace store. In 1880 he went to Longdale, Virginia, Alleghany county, and became a store keeper and purchaser of supplies for the furnaces and has been engaged in that busi- ness ever since. He was married Dec. 15, 1851 to Sadie Wait, daughter of John H. Wait, an old resident of Portsmouth. The names of his children are: Natalie and George. He is a republican in his political views, and a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Holman is esteemed by all who know him for his high character. He is one of the most genial and companionable of men, valuable in church, lodge and community and one who can always be depended on to do his share of work and do it to every one's satisfaction.

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John Henry Holman

was born August 9, 1860 at South Webster, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Herman Holman and his mother's maiden name was Isabel Mittendort. He attended the common schools until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to Delaware for a year. At the age of nineteen he went to Sciotoville and worked in the store of the Sciotoville Fire Brick Company where he remained two years. He went west in 1882 and was gone about a year. In 1883 he en- gaged in the brick business in Sciotoville and was there until May 16, 1892 when he went into the employment of J. F. Davis druggist and remained there during his life. When the business was incorporated he became secretary and treasurer. For two years before his death, he traveled for the company. He was taken sick May 12, 1901 and died July 8, 1901 of typhoid fever after one relapse. He was married June 2, 1886 to Lilias Seva Smith, daughter of the late L. P. N. Smith. They had one son David Harmon who died in infancy and one daughter, Stephanie S. Mr. Holman was a member of the Odd Fel- lows and the Knights of Pythias and a member of the Commercial Club. He was a republican in his political views.

As a clerk and as a manager he has developed wonderful business ability and had he survived, would have made as great a success in the business as his predecessor, J. F. Davis had done before him. His death was one of the saddest events which ever took place. He was so full of life, so full of energy, with wonderful capacity and ability for business, it seemed the irony of fate that he should have been taken away in the flower of manhood. All of his friends loved him and could not say too much in his praise.

Cornelius Honaker, M. D.,

was born in Bath county, Kentucky, October 11, 1831. He is the son of Charles Wesley Honaker, a native of Virginia, and Sarah (England) Honaker. His father was a Judge of Carter county, Kentucky. His boyhood and youth were spent in Carter county Kentucky. where he obtained a common school education. He studied medicine with Drs. W. England and Samuel Ellis of Lewis county, Kentucky. He took a first course in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, in 1859 and 1860. He came to Nile township, Scioto county, Ohio, in 1861. He attended a second course in the Ohio Medical College in 1883 and 1884 and graduated on March 7. 1884. He has been a farmer and has practiced medicine in Nile township ever since 1884. He was married June 8, 1863 to Emily J. Storer. They have two children: Morris Simpson. killed in a wreck on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in 1890 and Lucy, wife of A. King Veazey. He was a democrat before the war, a republican in 1864 and until 1876. when he became a democrat, but he voted for Mckinley in 1896. He is a member of the M. E. church and for ten years was a class leader and Sunday school su- perintendent. He is a very excellent citizen and is so esteemed in his own community.

Hermann Huels, Sr.,

was born October 31, 1834, at Rhede, Westphalen, Prussia. His parents were Hermann and Elizabeth (Knipper) Huels. He attended the schools of Gronau, Westphalen until he was fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the dyer's trade and served an apprenticeship for three years. He re- mained one year after his apprenticeship with his master, and traveled as was customary, in his country, until 1863, working in a great many towns in Ger- many, France, Switzerland, and Austria. Then he determined to go to the United States. He left Bremen, July 31, 1864 and landed in the United States the August following. He went to Springfield, Illinois. and remained until the following October, when he went to Cincinnati and followed his trade for one year. In October, 1865, he went to Chillicothe where he worked for a Mr. Dueber, and on September 10. 1866 he married his daughter, Pauline.

On February 15, 1870, he came to Portsmouth and purchased the dye house belonging to F. Zehner. He enlarged the business, and purchased ma- chinery for dyeing with steam. He has been very successful in business. He has been a member of the German Benevolent Society for over thirty years, and is a member of St. Peter's Benevolent Society. He is a director of the

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German Buiding and Loan Association. He was a member of the City Council from the Second ward from 1899 to 1901, and is now president of the non-par- tisan Fire Board of the city of Portsmouth. He is a democrat, and a member of St. Mary's church. He has the following children: Hermann, born in 1869, at Chillicothe, Ohio; Emil J., born in 1872, a druggist, now in Brooklyn, New York; Charles, born in 1875, who served in the Spanish War in the 6th United States Infantry; Anna, the wife of Dr. J. E. Bickle, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Otillie, at home; Albert, born in 1886, now in Brooklyn, New York, learning the drug business with his brother Emil.

Jesse Clough Hurd

was born December 1, 1839 at Jackson Furnace. His father was Jacob S. Hurd, who was born near Concord, N. H. His mother's maiden name was Sarah E. Clough, a daughter of Dr. Abner Clough, who is buried at Franklin Furnace. His grandfather's name was John Hurd, who came to the French Grant, and is buried at Portsmouth, O. His grandfather Clough came to Scioto county in an early date. John Ricker Hurd was the oldest child. The other three are: Jesse C., Alice Riggs and Joseph H. Our subject remained at Jackson Furnace until he was five years of age. His father was book-keeper and clerk at Jack- son Furnace. In 1884, the family moved to Franklin Furnace, where he was a partner in the furnace with the Goulds and was clerk. A few years later the family moved to Junior Furnace, where he went on the river as captain. In 1852, the family moved to Portsmouth, where they remained until 1870.

Our subject enlisted in Company F, Second Kentucky V. I. May 17, 1861 as a private for three years. He was appointed Sergeant May 17, 1861, pro- moted to 2nd Lieutenant January 25, 1862; First Lieutenant February 6, 1862; and then was made Captain of Company I, June 13, 1863, and was mustered out with the company June 19, 1864. This regiment was in West Virginia, and at the battles of Shiloh and Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. He came to Jackson in the fall of 1864, and has lived there ever since. He was engaged at the Diamond furnace as clerk until 1869. He was at Orange furnace, as a clerk until 1874, then went into the coal business until 1887, when he went into the Iron Bank as a partner and assistant cashier. He afterwards became president, which position he has had for three years. He was married in Sep- tember, 1866 to Julia Dungan, daughter of Levi Dungan. They have six chil- dren. Jesse, superintendent of the coal mines at Jackson; Alice C., at home; Levi Dungan, a medical student at Columbus: Harold H., a student at Ada, Ohio; Ethel H., and Bertha at home. Mr. Hurd is a republican, and is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the town of Jackson, Captain Jesse C. Hurd is held in the very highest esteem. He possesses all the qualities that make a good citizen, father and husband, and is above reproach in every respect.

Colonel John Ricker Hurd

was born January 4, 1838 at Jackson Furnace, Jackson county, Ohio. His father was Jacob S. Hurd and his mother's maiden name was Sarah E. Clough. Until he was 14 years of age, he lived in the furnace region near Portsmouth. Part of the time he attended the furnace schools, and the re- mainder, he played and hunted. When he was 14 years of age, the family moved to Portsmouth, and he attended school there a short time, and then went to boating on the western rivers, and was out on the plains and in the mountains of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. He returned from there, and went into the employment of Joseph M. G. Smith in the construction and operation of his distillery in Greenup county, Ky., and remained there until the war broke out.

When the war began, he entered the service May 17, 1861 as Captain of Co. F, in the Second Kentucky Infantry. He was promoted to Major January 25, 1862, and was made Lieutenant Colonel January 13, 1863. He was mustered out with the regiment June 19, 1864, (see Co. F., 2nd Ky. Infantry, page 226.) He was captured by the enemy in July, 1861, and incarcerated in Libby Pri- son at Richmond, Va., from which he escaped with Col. W. H. Raynor and a Lieutenant Murphy in September, 1861, an account of which was published in "Harper's Monthly Magazine." Col. Hurd was in the battles of Shiloh,

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Stone river, Chickamauga and many smaller affairs. He was appointed Colonel of the 173 regiment O. V. I., September 18, 1864 and served as such until June 26, 1865.

Col. Hurd returned to Portsmouth directly after the war. He was mar- ried October 13, 1867, to Miss Alice R. Tracy, daughter of Charles O. Tracy. In the same year, he was a candidate for representative on the republican ticket against the late Hon. James W. Newman, and received 2,290 votes; Newman received 2,547 votes and a majority of 257. That was the year, in which the Republican party suffered a Waterloo defeat in Ohio, on account of the advocacy of Negro suffrage, but Col. Hurd has no regrets for the part he took in that campaign. He canvassed the county, and spoke in almost every school district. He made a most active and creditable canvass, and was de- feated only because the entire ticket was defeated. In January, 1868, Col. Hurd moved to Albia, Iowa, where he resided for a number of years; from there, he removed to Fort Dodge, Kansas, and from there to Pueblo, Colorado, where he now resides. Col. Hurd has two children, Tracy S. Hurd of Newton, Kansas, and Mrs. John H. Shaw of Pueblo, Colorado. He was the beau ideal of a soldier and it would have been better for his country if he had made the profession of arms his life vocation.

Adolph Hurth

was born June 17, 1838, in Germany. He came to the United States in 1854 and was thirty-five days crossing the ocean. His father, Jacob Hurth was a carpenter and died in Portsmouth in 1856. His mother died when he was very young. He attended the common schools in Germany until he was six- teen years old. In the meantime, he learned the baker's trade and worked a short time at that before he came to America. On arriving at Portsmouth, in 1854 he commenced, at once, to work for M. & S. Timmonds and worked for them until 1862. He then began work as a clerk in Cutler & Brown's liquor store. He remained in this same place under different employers until De- cember, 1895. He commenced business for himself December 1, 1895. He is a democrat. He is a member of St. Mary's church and a trustee of the same and has been for twenty-four years. March 28, 1864, he was married to Elizabeth Reitz, daughter of John and Amelia Reitz. They have three sons: Edward, Adolph and Lewis.

Andrew J. Hyland

was born April 11, 1863, on Pine creek in Green township, this county. He is the son of John and Mary (Doyle) Hyland, both natives of Ireland, who located first in Cincinnati and afterwards in Scioto county. Andrew was raised on a farm and educated in the country schools until he was sixteen. He attended. school two years after he became of age. He went to Montana in 1884, and was given charge of the machinery in the concentrator of a mining plant near Gregory. After eighteen months of mining experience, he came back liome and learned telegraphy. He was employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company as agent at Franklin Furnace until 1901, when he resigned his posi- tion to turn his attention to a mercantile business which he had been carrying on for some years as a side line, and which had grown so as to demand his undivided attention. His store at Franklin Furnace burned in 1898, causing a loss of $2,000, but he rebuilt immediately and now handles a large line of gen- eral merchandise as well as machinery and farm implements. He has been postmaster at Frankiln Furnace for three years past. He is a republican and a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic church near Wheelersburg, Ohio. He was united in marriage with Myrtie Eakins, daughter of W. C. Eakins of Sciotoville, September 22, 1892. By this union three children have been born: Orville Ray and Stanley, boys; and Dein, a girl. Mr. Hyland is a citizen high- ly valued by all who know him. He is upright and straightforward in all things. He is a true friend and an untiring worker in any cause he espouses. He is a positive working factor in everything with which he is connected.

John W. Jackson

was born in Bloom township, near Bloom Furnace, Scioto county, Ohio, in 1836. His father, Evan Jackson, came from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, in

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1815. After living in Adams county about four years, he removed to Scioto Furnace and then to Bloom Furnace. His mother's maiden name was Rebecca Whuey, a native of Kentucky. Her parents both died in Louisville, Kentucky. Our subject received a common school education and when nine years of age, removed to Kentucky and remained there until he enlisted in the 14th Kentucky Infantry, Company E, October 15, 1861. He was discharged January 31, 1865. After his return from the army, he came to Scioto county and has been a far- mer in Madison township since. He was elected a Justice of the Peace in Madison township in 1898 and was re-elected and is now serving on his second term. He was a whig until 1854 and then became a republican. On October 29, 1859 he was married to Josephine Smith, daughter of David and Rebecca Smith, natives of Virginia and Kentucky. They have six children: Emily, the wife of Andrew McWilliams of Rush township; Caroline, late wife of William Allen; Charlotte, wife of Monroe Lambert of Lawrence county; Ella, de- ceased, wife of P. K. Martin; John of Jackson county; and Albert at home.

Archibald W. H. Jamieson,

our subject was born in August, 1862, at Movanagher Castle, near Kilrea, county Derry, Ireland. His father was Hugh Jamieson, a gentleman farmer, and his mother was Elizabeth Henderson, aunt of Mrs. Capt. N. W. Evans, of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was started out in the cold world with the name of Archibald William Henderson, as a prenomen and has managed to struggle along with it to the present time. He attended the national schools in Ire- land from five to eighteen years of age. After that he was dubbed a gentle- man farmer, but in reality spent most of his time in athletics and won several medals. Football was his particular vanity. In 1887, he quit the business of farming and in 1889, came to the United States on a visit. He really came, like the spies in Canaan, to view the land. Soon after his arrival, he made up his mind that the United States was the best country for him and remained. He thought he could make a better citizen to study one year and did so at the Normal School at Lebanon.

In 1890, he went into the employment of Lowry & Goebel, in the carpet trade, in Cincinnati, and remained there until 1892. In July, 1892, he started in the oil business with the Standard Oil Company, and remained with them till 1893, when he went into the employment of Charles H. Moore & Co., manu- facturers and dealers in oil, in Cincinnati, and has been with them ever since. In 1893, he revisited Ireland and spent the three summer months. In June, 1895, he revisited Ireland, and voted for a Member of Parliament, the day after his arrival. On June 5, 1897, he visited the Probate Court of Hamilton, and declared his intentions to become an American citizen, At the same time he concluded to attend to some other business, in the same court, and took out a license to marry Miss Nellie Haight, a daughter of the late Jared Haight, of the firm of Burbeck & Haight, who furnished the "hard tack" in the late civil war.

On the next day, June 8, 1895, he was married to Miss Haight, and the two started to Ireland for a three month's honeymoon trip. He spent that time visiting his mother, brother and sister at Kilrea, Ireland, and in travel- ing in Ireland and Scotland. On his return, he went to housekeeping at 1575 Pullen Avenue, Northside, Cincinnati, where he has since resided. He has one child, Elizabeth Henderson, born June 8, 1896, on the first anniversary of his marriage. He and his wife visited Ireland in 1900. While he would like to spend every summer in "old Ireland," yet he is at heart as loyally American as if he were born of six generations of citizens of the United States.

In his political views, he is a republican, and in his religious views a Presbyterian. His mother, brother and sister reside in a home in Ireland on the river Bann, on the site of Movanagher Castle. A portion of the castle tower and walls are still standing, though the castle proper was destroyed by Cromwell in 1649. Within 500 yards of his birthpace was an old Danish Fort, Coneybery. The river Bann in the vicinity of his former home, is noted for its eel and other fisheries. Mr. Jamieson's home in Ireland has been in the family for over two hundred years and there is no wonder at his attachment for it which takes him back every few summers. But one in each generation of his family became an American citizen and he is the representative of the

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third generation. His uncle, Joseph Henderson and his great-uncle of the same name, represent the two former generations. Mr. Jamieson is of that class of north of Ireland lrishmen, descended from Scotchmen, who located in Ireland in the seventeenth century which makes the world go, and he proposes to do his share of that work. Where Alexander Stewart and Alexander McDonald. men of his nationality, succeeded, he thinks he will not fail. We predict a successful and prosperous future for him.

William Henry Washington Jenkins

was born at Harrisonville, Scioto county, Ohio, September 15, 1830, and was the only son of William Jenkins, who died September 5, 1855. His mother's maiden name was Polly Shumway, born at Reading, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1816, and died September 9, 1892. His early life was spent near his childhood home. He was married September 9, 1871, to Samantha Robertson, youngest daughter of Samuel S., and Jane (Taylor) Robertson. He obtained a good com- mon school education and taught in the public schools of this county from the fall of 1869 to December 23, 1881. He studied surveying and in January, 1884, was appointed deputy County Surveyor, and has held that position, or special deputy, a great portion of the time since.

He served one term as clerk of Madison township from April, 1881, also one term as assessor of Harrison township, from April, 1890. Having studied civil engineering, he entered the city civil engineer's office under B. C. Bratt, city engineer, on July 13, 1895, and served as rodman and assistant civil en- gineer until May 1, 1899. Though of different political views, he was retained as assistant city civil engineer by Mr. Bratt's successor, Major John I. Hudson, during his entire term of service, ending January 4, 1900. During Mr. Hud- son's term the sanitary sewer was built, Gallia street was paved from North Waller street to Young street, Offnere street was paved from Gallia street to Twelfth street and Second street from Market to Chillicothe street and Chil- licothe street was re-paved from Second street to Ninth street, making the largest amount of public improvements ever done by the city in any one year, A flood defense commission was appointed by the City Council in the spring of 1901, to make surveys, plans and estimates and embody the same in a report to said City Council for placing valves in the sewers, building dykes, pumping stations, etc., for the protection of the city from all floods in the Ohio river of sixty feet or less. Mr. Jenkins was selected as civil engineer for the flood defense commission, and under their instructions, made the surveys, plans and estimates for the same. The report of the commission was adopted by council and made the basis for all future improvements in that direction and districts Numbers 1 and 3 have been practically completed according to said plans. At present he is civil engineer for the Ohio Valley Traction Com- pany, having charge of the improvements of the old line and building the new extension eastward. Mr. Jenkins is a faithful and conscientious officer and a good citizen.

Sanford Bundy Jennings

was born in Vinton county, Ohio, near Hamden Furnace, July 3, 1846. He was named for the Hon. Hezekiah Bundy. His father, Enos Jennings, was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1794. His mother, Catharine Mur- phy, was born December 25, 1802. They were married April 2, 1820. His fa- ther died May 4, 1857, near Hamden Furnace, and his mother died at the same place August 15, 1868. They are buried at the Bundy cemetery, near Wells- ton, Ohio.

Our subject attended the public schools near his home, and for a short time at the Ohio University at Athens. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in Company G, 7th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, September 16, 1862, for three years. and was made Commissary Sergeant of the Company. He gave his age as nineteen, though in reality he was in his seventeenth year. After the battle of Nashville, December 15, 1864, his company was detailed as body guard to Gen. John M. Schofield. He served until June 22, 1865.

After the war he received an appointment as express messenger on the Portsmouth Branch of the Marietta and Cincinnai railroad, and afterwards on the main line. On January 20, 1870, W. H. H. Cadot resigned as the Adams

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Express agent at Portsmouth, and Mr. Jennings was appointed in his place. In April, 1872, he and Pat Prendergast took the Biggs House, under the firm of Prendergast and Jennings. June 8, 1873, they leased it for five years and run it until 1876, when Mr. Prendergast died, and Mr. Jennings conducted the hotel alone until January, 1879, when W. H. Williams went into partnership with him, under the firm of Jennings and Williams. This continued until Decem- ber, 1881, when Mr. Jennings sold out to Mr. Williams and left Portsmouth in March, 1881.

He was married March 29, 1881, to Miss Emma Johnson, daughter of the late George Johnson. His health had given signs of breaking down, and in the summer of 1881, he managed the Manitou House at Manitou Springs, Col- orado, and spent the winter in Portsmouth. On May 2, 1882, he started west. At Kansas City, July 3, 1882, he was taken very sick. He got better, but was found dead in his bed July 17, 1882. He was a Knight-Templar Mason. As an express agent and as a hotel landlord he was very popular with all with whom he did business. The hotel business was successful in his hand.

Albert Tracy Johnson

was born May 18. 1857 in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was George Johnson, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Ruth Tracy, a daughter of Samuel M. Tracy. Our subject attended the public schools of Portsmouth through the Grammar grades, went to Kenyon College for four years, and left at the close of the junior year. In 1875 he came back to Portsmouth and engaged in busi- ness with the Scioto Fire Brick Company at Sciotoville, as assistant in the store. He remained there two years and then went into the Portsmouth National Bank, where he remained until 1883. Then he went into the First National Bank of Portsmouth as cashier, where he remained until 1892, when he became president of the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company. On June 1, 1901, the Portsmouth Co., the South Webster Fire Brick Co., the Blast Furnace Fire Brick Company and the Kentucky Fire Brick Company, were incorporated as the Portsmouth & Kentucky Fire Brick Company, and Mr. Johnson has since been its president.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 135

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612